Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: at91: rm9200 add system timer resources to watchdog

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Fri Oct 31 2014 - 17:37:31 EST


On Friday 31 October 2014 21:57:56 Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 31/10/2014 at 21:50:05 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote :
> > On Friday 31 October 2014 21:45:58 Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > > To be able to make the watchdog driver independent from the mach/ includes, pass
> > > the system timer register space as a resource.
> > >
> > > Also, change the name to avoid conflicting with the at91sam9 watchdog driver.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> >
> > Doing this change as a separate patch breaks bisection because now the device
> > name no longer matches untile the other patch is applied too.
> >
>
> Yeah, I was not sure how important that was as there is no user of the
> watchdog in the kernel. My thinking was that both patch can then go
> through different trees.
>
> I can definitely squash them.

AFAICT, arch/arm/configs/at91rm9200_defconfig enables the device and it
gets registered through at91_add_standard_devices. You definitely have
my Ack to merge the mach-at91 patch through the watchdog tree.

Arnd
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